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Day 100 Quiet
Viburnum There are days like today when I don’t have much to say. It has been a hard day, but that’s okay. We all have them. I can still set a lovely flower in a blue bowl and light it just right to...
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Day 101 First Rose of Spring
Love and Peace This is my first rose of the season. It’s a good time of year to be a rose. The enemies of the roses have not yet invaded the garden. Aphids, Japanese beetles and black spot will soon be...
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Day 102 Puppies 7 weeks
Tiger Lily Well the puppies are 7 weeks and this will be their last portrait session. Most of them will go to their new homes on Saturday and a few will stay an extra week. We will miss them but they...
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Day 103 Run to You
Run to You I love this image from the sweet wedding I was honored to capture last weekend. These two are so full of joy. They were so deeply happy about getting married they could hardly contain it....
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Day 104 Puppy Season
With You I think I could add the phrase “with you” to anything and it would be better. Raising puppies is no exception. Just when I think I am all alone in this thing, you come home and and play your...
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Mama
Lifted Mama This is my favorite photo of us. I wish I had one that showed your face at this moment but I know that mine was only mirroring yours. You were smiling, full of joy. This is what it felt...
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Sleepy Summer Heart
These Four I watch them walk down the beach into the sunset and my heart tightens a bit in my chest. It’s not sadness really. It is more like the melancholy that comes with being in the presence of...
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Day 71 Portrait of Johnny
Melancholy Soul I am so grateful my boy let me take his portrait today for my project. This image portrays him so well. He is a deep-thinking, melancholy soul. Sometimes when he tells me what he is...
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Day 80 Me and You
Me and You (I borrowed these images from my 2011 365 Project. They just seemed appropriate. Giving myself grace for this project to continue on.) Dear Husband, Tonight we got to teach a premarital...
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Day 88 Fragile
Fragile See this little dandelion, half torn, half scattered? It can feel like this, walking through grief. It can be such a delicate, tenuous process.In a moment I can be undone. My insides show...
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Day 92 Flower Crown
Flower Crown Katie came to the house this morning. It was a lovely surprise. She sat at the kitchen table with me and we drank coffee in little blue and white cups. She gazed out the window at the...
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Day 95 Constant
Constant I am walking under the night sky again. I skipped a day again yesterday on this project. I am in a tough season and I am learning grace for myself. I was very weary with too much on my plate....
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Day 5 Be Still
Reflect Sometimes I wake up in the morning feeling it– that feeling of being pushed from behind. It often follows me the whole day, this awful feeling of being hurried to get things done. It is...
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Day 7 Pony
Beautiful Astro Today I took my pony Astro out for a walk. He’s not really a pony. He is a little Paso Fino horse and he is glorious. Every move he makes is sweeping and stately. He knows who he is....
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Day 22 Craftsman
Skilled The corners of his curve into a winsome smile as he runs his hands over the oak chest. How he loves the things he makes. The air is filled with the warm scent of wood and hard work. He has...
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Day 40 Tending the Magic
Tend the Magic I saw this refection quite by accident as I was photographing a sunset today and it stopped me in my tracks. I just loved the clear image of the trees mixed in orange and blue...
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Day 53 Hide no More
Color Rush It’s time to shine, Buttercup. Hiding is okay for a season but it’s time. You can feel the joy and excitement welling up within you. Let’s not belabor this any longer. The world needs to see...
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Puppies 6 weeks
Baxter in his hat Janey’s puppies turned 6 weeks this week and Winter had her litter last week. Suffice it to say I am overwhelmed. Thankfully all is well with everyone. Winter did give us a scare over...
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Puppies 7 weeks
Sweet Indigo The puppies are 7 weeks and it is busy at our house. We are readying these babies to go home to their families next week. These will be their last portraits for the blog. They are the best...
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Day 65 Unknown
Around the Bend I actually took this photo in December shortly after my mom passed away, but it seems appropriate to post it now. There is so much of my path that feels unknown to me right now. I have...
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